[AusNOG] Web filter a runaway success: Exetel

[McDonald Richards]

You'll have to pay Google a licensing fee if you want to build a floating DC
now :)

 

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/05/floating-data-center-patent-gra
nted-to-google.ars

 

Macca

 

 

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Colwell, Scott
Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2009 10:24 AM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Web filter a runaway success: Exetel

 

Just been to see "The Boat that Rocked".

 

Can I interest anyone in setting up a web hosting business on a ship outside
the

territorial limits?   Moor it over PPC-1 and get Bev to hook you up!

 

Scott

 


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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft
Sent: Tuesday, 5 May 2009 9:38 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Web filter a runaway success: Exetel

And just so no one thinks this is a good idea:

http://www.efa.org.au/2009/05/05/efa-gets-link-removal-notice/

Insane and angry making.

MMC

Mark Newton wrote: 

On 05/05/2009, at 6:51 PM, Kai wrote:
 
  

Mmmm, so the article doesn't tell the full story, figures, but what's
the bet that certain people in certain places will use this one  
article
to basically say "Hey, see, the filter aint ALL bad..." :S
    

 
The problem is that Peter Mancer from Watchdog has already admitted that
it can't satisfy even the most watered-down of the Government's  
requirements,
because it can't cope with URLs hosted on high-traffic sites occupying
the blacklist.
 
Remember:  Since last year, Conroy has claimed that he wants the ACMA
prohibited list to be blocked.  When the ACMA prohibited list was leaked
that position became politically hilarious, so he changed his tune to
"almost exclusively RC" (SBS Insight 31 March 2009), then "We've
never stated that we were going to do anything other than Refused
Classification" (Triple J Hack, 7 April 2009)
http://newmatilda.com/polliegraph/?p=567
 
The problem is that the Classification Board has Refused Classification
to several YouTube videos, which means the ultimate "high traffic site"
is on the blacklist even after Conroy has changed all the definitions.
 
And Mancer has said that high-traffic sites will blow his system's  
brains
out.  Indeed, the failure mode is exactly the same (and for exactly the
same reason) as the IWF Wikipedia failure in the UK in early December.
 
Mancer's proposed solution is to whitelist high-traffic sites, so they  
won't
be blocked even if the Government insists that they must be.
 
So Exetel has had a "runaway success" in testing a system which cannot
satisfy the Government's requirements.
 
Can Exetel deploy Mancer's censorbox without a Government mandate to
deploy a voluntary filtering service in response to demand from their
customers?  By all means, and more power to them.  Hope it works out
for them.
 
But will that meet the dictates of the Government's stated policy?
Nope.  They'll need another, untested censorbox to do that.
 
   - mark
 
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